Quotes About Change

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!

Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.

One thing the young were sure of; they would never again place their fate in the hands of an older generation.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

You have to hate how the world goes on.

Surfers have a perfection fetish. The perfect wave, etcetera. There is no such thing. Waves are not stationary objects in nature like roses or diamonds. They're quick, violent events at the end of a long chain of storm action and ocean reaction. Even the most symmetrical breaks have quirks and a totally specific, local character, changing with every shift in tide and wind and swell.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible...

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

Truth had hanged the way the landscape had changed to accommodate progress, altered by each generation to its purpose. He had learned from the talk of old men that there was no such thing as truth, truth was always shaded by perception and expectation.

You afoot, the old man said. I knowed your walk the minute I seen you. You always walked like you had the world in your hip pocket. You ain't though, have you? Last time I seen you you was in a fine car. You had big plans.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.

As we brew, we must bake

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

The idea of the "free man," as we understand it, is the product of a revolt against mediaeval and feudal ideas; and

Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We

Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That